The benevolent banner., 1887-07-09

they are precisely the things which
anger does not help"
Ex-VIcE PRESIDENT WHEELER was a
very generous man. He was even kind
hearted toward book agents. One Of
them once invaded his library at Malone
and urged Mr.. Wheeler to subscribe
for certain subscription book. The
Malone statesman did not want the
volume, but presented the agent with
S. gold piece and told him to leave.
A MARYLAND authority says: IF you
want to get peanut at it's best, you
should eat it half an hour after it has
been roasted. People who are disposed
to be dyspeptic should not eat many-it
would be better if they did not eat any
at all. Properly roasted peanuts are
healthy for healthy people. The or
dinary peanut eater eats one minute,
which is too fast"
AN Arizona owl, having selected q
perch under the cornice of q house as
the spot for devouring his nightly catch
of scorpions, left in week SO large a
quantity of remnants as to prove he
must have destroyed the reptiles by the
score every night, and of course the
yard about the house and the garden
were correspondingly thinned Of these
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In the correspondence between Sec
retary Bayard and Mr.. West, the
British Minister, with reference to
assisted immigrants, the former says
the expectation hither by foreign
power of paupers, in order to get rid OF
the burden of their support, can
scarcely be regarded as a friendly act,
nor is it in harmony with the laws ex-
isting between the two countries.
AN Italian organ boy was summoned
the other day for playing an organ to
the annoyance of gentleman living in
Gloucester terrace, Hyde Park, Lon
don. The magistrate said that in his
opinion a more unmitigated nuisance
than barrel organs did not exist, and
fined the boy 40 shillings. Whereupon
well-dressed lady standing in the
courtroom promptly paid the fine.
PROF. Y. L. JAcQUossN, of Chicago,
has written the Lords prayer within a
round space no larger than the end of a
common lead pencil. When it is con-
sidered that the prayer consists of 256
letters, ten of which are capitals, and
fifteen marks of punctuation, the act of
the Viennese professor in writing forty
two French words (of unnamed lengthy
upon a grain of wheat is somewhat
thrown into the shade. The writing
was done without the aid of glass, and
can easily be read with the naked eye.
Two LITTLE girls Of Moline, Ill. while
gathering flowers, stumbled upon new
made grave. It was open, and in the
bottom there is said to have been a
coffin, in which was the corpse of girl
probably 13 years old. The grave was
only about three feet. deep, and the
face and breast of the girl could be
plainly seen through the uncovered
glass portion of the lid. When they
told their friends and returned to the
spot the grave was empty.
DURING a thunderstorm at Hazelton,
Pa, lightning struck a pen-knife in the
hands of High Sheriff Zierdt, who was
bathing in :. tub. When he came to,
nothing but small splinters could be
found of the tub he had been bathing
In, and the water it contained was
equally distributed over the floor as if
done with mop in the hands of a
scrubwoman. The metal in the knife
was melted. No other evidence that
the lightning had entered the room
could be found.
A MUSIC firm in Birmingham, En-
gland, were asked to send an organ to
suit pianoforte in neighboring town
where a concert was to take place
They discovered that telephone ex-
listed in the room where the piano was.
Forthwith they asked that one Of the
notes of the piano should be struck
When this was done the sound could be
distinctly heard in their warerooms and
by gradually reducing the pitch-pipe
the tones of both instruments were
made to correspond.
Two PENSIONS with arrears, recentl,
issued by the Pension Bureau, are sait
to be the largest ever paid. One wa
to Francis Patterson, formerly Of Com
pany G, One Hundred and Fiftyfourtl
New York Infantry, who is totall.
blind. He is to receive sl3, 337.99
and SIP a month as long as he lives